Stats and Definitions!
Types of Fishing
Aquaculture
Random Aquaculture Facts
Guess the Fish!(#fun)
100
What is it called when fish are caught and discarded as waste
What is by-catch
100
Huge fishing nets that scoop up everything in their path, profitable but destructive and most state has banned their use
What are drift nets?
100
Aquaculture is agriculture in...
water!
100
Type of water aquaculture is possible in
What is marine/brackish/freshwater?
100
What is salmon?
200
Amount of by-catch discarded each year
What is over 20 million metric tons?
200
Fishing method where a metal rake is used to scrape the ocean floor in order to collect mussels, clams, scallops, etc.
What is dredging?
200
Name two benefits of aquaculture
doesn't take lots of land space (less resources), reduces risk of ecosystem and fishery collapse
200
Intended to promote and support the development of private aquaculture and to ensure coordination among the various federal agencies that have aquaculture programs and policies
What is The National Aquaculture Act of 1980?
200
What is blue fine tuna?
300
Overfishing causes 90% of fishery population to decline
What is fishery collapse?
300
A type of deep-sea fishing gear consisting of a long main line anchored to the bottom to which shorter lines with baited hooks are fastened at intervals
what is long lines?
300
Name two drawbacks of aquaculture
contamination(lots of fish waste), fast spread of disease
300
The most common aqua-cultured fish
What is salmon/tuna/cod/trout?
300
What is a piranha?
400
What percent of ocean apex predators have been wiped out
What is 90%?
400
A fishing practice that herds and captures the target species, like ground fish or crabs, by towing a net along the ocean floor
What is bottom trawling?
400
What percent of the seafood eaten worldwide comes from aquaculture
What is over 50%?
400
Median salary of a aquaculture farmer
What is $25,063?
400
What is giant black sea bass?
500
Areas where fishing is highly regulated to solely small-scale operations or halted altogether in order to protect endangered ecosystems
What is Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?
500
An effective fishing method for species that school near the surface; a large net is encircled around the targeted catch, after which the bottom of the net is drawn tight like the strings of a purse, thus confining the catch in the net.
What is purse seine fishing?
500
The 4 stages of aquaculture
What is hatchery, feed mills, farms, and processor?
500
What country is the largest aquaculture producer (bonus point for how many tons produced per year)
What is China? (63.7 million metric tons produced)
500
What is tequila splitfin fish?